“I once read that everything begins when we take notice. God noticed that Elijah was not meant to stay in that cave. The student I met was not meant to dwell in and be stuck under that cloud.”

“The best of things, the worst of things. The light and shadowy side of religion. Are they both on display in the prophet Elijah?”

“I see Jesus' outstretched hands in the work of Welcome House, a transitional home for women run by the St. Vincent Pallotti Sisters in the center of São Paulo.”

“God speaks in the storms of our lives to help us keep walking in faith, love and hope, and so experience calm, no matter what blows in our direction”

“So as this short story ends, something of shimmering beauty has been revealed in the darkness, and a firm foundation of courage and hope in God has been given in the midst of the turmoil of the sea”

“faith (literally) has its ups and downs and that it works best when we don’t confuse it with our own powers”

“Jesus is not outside or far from the Church, but is at its heart, leading us to the divine life, leading us to walk not on turbulent waters, but on sunshine streaming from his Sacred Heart”

“For our religion is not about magical powers, but about a relationship, lived in love, with the Living God; if we fail, if we lose sight of it, our only recourse, like Peter’s, is to hold out our hands for mercy and cry ‘Lord, save me.’”

“Where does the courage to be come from? It comes when we borrow from the divine Christ something of his divinity. When we participate, yes, even in the stormy times in his divinity, we find courage, we find peace.”

“I have a lot of people say to me, you know, 'how can you be aboriginal and Catholic?' Well, we see Jesus' story and we affiliate it with somebody that's been persecuted for doing nothing wrong. We did nothing wrong in this country. You know, we had God with us since the beginning of time.”

“God has lordship over the waters, yes, and so can you, so can I if we have faith in him. If we look to him, we make him the center of our lives, we keep our hearts, our minds, our bodies, our eyes fixed on him.”

“So many, many times in my life God has had a better idea...I’ve been so blessed with God listening to my prayers, then answering them in ways that I would never have imagined.”

“The times when the events in our lives are challenging and difficult can become times when God shows himself most clearly to us. As such, they become a place where we encounter God. And such encounters can leave us in even greater awe of his love and care for us.”

“The difficulty they encountered at this moment in the sea is not by any way their fault. They simply obeyed the voice of the Master who asked them to move. This is certainly the heart of the whole narrative. No one who obeys the voice of the Lord will be lost.”

“The external, dramatic, and visible in human history does not always reveal the hand of God. Yet God is always living and active, working in human hearts in ways that we do not recognize or notice.”

“Sometimes we ourselves bring upon the storms in our lives, and other times we simply encounter storms that cause us to lose faith. But we choose to follow our fear rather than our faith in God and His Providence. We often cause our own problems.”

“Can we meet another in the storm, recognize the face of Jesus and extend the hand that will help us both reach safety? Yes, we can and yes, we do! We have seen it happen.”

“Just as Elijah found the voice of the Lord in the gentle breeze, so Jesus Christ, continually listening to the Father’s voice, is the gentle presence of God in the midst of human violence”

“Elijah was being told that God can be found not only in great terrifying forces of nature, but also through his unseen government of events. The sound of the gentle breeze is the Spirit of God, strengthening the man of faith, confirming him in his work as a prophet of God.”

“The appearance of Jesus cannot be taken in at one go. Blurred perceptions have to be clarified.”

“Just as we can be defined by the things that we seek and love we can also be defined by our fears”

“'Truly' they say 'you are the Son of God.' Now listen Christians, that's the confession of the Church up and down the ages to the present time. When we stop saying that we stop being the Church.”